That's right — not every gay movie has to end wh heartbreak.
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THE “UNREQUED LOVE” OF AN ACCINTAL (GAY) ACTIVIST
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This is, unfortunately, only partially te, bee as adults those straight boys bee gay boys, and so, while there might be a b of reciprocy, we’re still left fancyg a iend, -worker, or that cute guy who works at Barn & Noble and whose glance always lgers jt a b too long when you buy a book (and you buy too many bee of said cute guy. It’s bee heteronormative society teach that if you have romantic feelgs for someone, you should act some way upon them, and the suatns gays rarely, I’m not advotg for gay people to keep their romantic clatns to themselv. It’s why LGBTQ people obss over any form of reprentatn and why, as soon as one gay person is nice to , we assume that we’re love wh them and meant to spend the rt of our liv together like somethg om a Nora Ephron latter falls directly to the “do I want to be wh them or do I jt want to be them” nundm and why, perhaps, romantic and platonic love is a dichotomy not f for queer nsumptn.
Almost every time I’ve formed a ep and supportive iendship wh someone else who’s also gay, I’ve had to wonr where my feelgs lie: Do I fancy them or don’t I? Gay people don’t always have role mols to look up to, so we turn to our iends and those around and try and live as they all this mean that I loved them or that I was love wh them? Really, there’s no wrong or right way to navigate your feelgs, pecially when those feelgs don’t nform to perceived this is an important distctn to make, pecially when gay people do stggle wh so much ternalized shame.